I like brown rice and Kashi cereals. Joey, not so much. I used to sneak lovingly make a 1/2 brown rice, 1/2 white rice mixture....but there was no point bc Joey wouldn't eat it. So I only cooked white rice.
Until very recently. He attended a conference meeting & came home with The full plate diet. All of a sudden, I am now getting requests to cook only brown rice. And buy only high fiber foods.
Who are you & what have you done with my husband?
My grocery list now includes: Lentils, beans, avocado, broccoli, artichokes, cauliflower, quinoa, sweet potato, whole grain bread/cereal/etc, almond butter + flaxseed, potatoes, bananas, oranges, among other things.
It's been good, everything we grew up hearing from our parents about the NEWSTART way, but in an easy-to-read format.
The basic premise? Eat fiber. Every day. 40 grams of it. No calorie counting.
So far, so good. Especially Trader Joe's 3 Minute Brown rice.
If I have ever stated that being a parent isn't any fun, I take it back.
It is simply a hoot these days. The laughing, the new expressions, the clucking, the crawling. (We really are wonderfully made, aren't we Grace?)
We recently took her on a hike to Malibu.
And on her first visit to the Huntington Library
Everything is more fun when it is your baby's "first" anything
Like her first play date with a yorkshire terrier. Or seeing a duck at the park. And hearing her laugh in response.
I was recently reminded of the short duration of our lives here on earth. And how precious life is. I am reassured that our relationships now are but a fraction of a second in comparison to the eternal life that is promised us.
I leave you with a video of my crawling baby. She's not walking yet (and I only say that bc people keep asking)...but I am amazed when she crawls out of her room, down the hallway, to come & find me getting ready in my room.
